"On the Media" Some comic strips have gone on through four or five artists, "and actually the second and third artists sometimes improve the strip," says "Doonesbury" creator Garry Trudeau, "but I think mine will go with me." He tells Brooke Gladstone: "I have a feeling that newspapers are going to perhaps make their exit before I would make that decision about myself [retiring the strip]." || More from the weekend's "On the Media."

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From 1999 to 2011, Jim Romenesko maintained the Romenesko page for the Poynter Institute, a Florida-based non-profit school for journalists. Poynter hired him in August of 1999, after seeing his MediaGossip.com, a hobby site he started in May of 1999.